China is second-largest country in land area | World Bank

[Martian2]

Source (World Bank): Land area (sq. km) | Data | Table

Chart link: Land Area / Countries of the World

 

[Economic superpower]

What happened to Canada? Did America steal more Canadian land?

 

[IR-TR]

What happened to Canada? Did America steal more Canadian land?

Haha I was going to ask the same thing. Probably some of their icy land melted away

 

[Talwar e Pakistan]

Source (World Bank): Land area (sq. km) | Data | Table

Chart link: Land Area / Countries of the World

Iran smaller than Saudi Arabia, and Libya...?

 

[Force-India]

Its by Land area i.e. Total area - Area covered with Water.

 

[Tractor]

Look at the map I feel that the US is much more larger than China if it's mainland combined with Alaska the US' biggest enclave which cut off the seashore area with very long line from Canada.

 

[xunzi]

This is nothing compare to the peak of our land territory during the Qing period.

 

[rcrmj]

are you back Martian? not worried about those stalkers?

 

[Soulspeek]

Your country is still trying to repeat that!

Anyways Qing's Empire was the 7th largest Empire of history. The largest was British Empire and it was almost 3 times in size in comparison to Qing Dynasty.

A comprehensive list can be found here:
List of largest empires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is nothing compare to the peak of our land territory during the Qing period.

 

[Martian2]

are you back Martian? not worried about those stalkers?

It took a few weeks, but I managed to persuade The National Interest to delete racist comments against Chinese. I think The National Interest has probably banned the racist users. Their accounts now show as "Guest."

I made a big deal about the whole racism thing and the vast majority of the racists are gone.

I had to go through this nonsense on BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, and now The National Interest. I had also been complaining to Disqus.

 

[opruh]

^ Haha poor India, even here China is ranked higher.

 

[kankan326]

Looks like Russia is more than twice larger than China.

 

[Martian2]

Looks like Russia is more than twice larger than China.
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That's due to the Mercator Projection distortion.

The closer that you move to the North Pole, the smaller the object.

Russia is actually much smaller than it looks on the Mercator Projection. The Mercator Projection counts every grid as the same size. Obviously, that can't be true. Look at an orange. The little slice of orange near the pole looks huge when you stretch it into a grid.

Similarly, Greenland is way distorted in size.

To compare countries properly, you have to look at a spherical globe.

 

[sweetgrape]

@Martian2 , long time no see, glad to you back, like reading your thread, although many of that I can't understand,

 

[TaiShang]

Glad to see you are back @Martian2